Means for testing the balance of a pulley running at a predetermined speed.



J. T; LIN GOLN & J. CORNELL. MEANS 'FOR TESTING THE BALANCE OF A PULLEY RUNNING AT A PREDETBRMINED SPEED.

APPLIGATION'IILED MAR. 20.1911.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 20, 1911.

1,009,323,- V Patented 111011.21, 1911.

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"UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONATHAN 'r. Lmcorm AND JAMES CORNELL, mm. mvnn, mnssncnusnrrs.

MEANS FOR TESTING THE BALANCE OF A PULLEY RUNNING AT A PREDETEBMINED SPEED.

Patented Nov." 21, 1911.

Serial No. 615,716.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J ONA'LIHAN T. LIN- COLN and JAMES CORNELL, citizens of the United States, residing at Fall River, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have jointly invented certain new and useful Means for Testing the Balance of a Pulley Running at a Predetermined Speed,

of which the-following is a specification, refing to seek the lowest position below the.

erence being had therein to the accompanying drawings. v

It has been, and is, common practice, to determine the balance of a pulley, i. 6. its equilibrium in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the pulley, by allowing the pulley and its arbor to roll slowly on horizontal steel ways; the heaviest side tendarbor. By the adjustment and fixing of suitable balancing weights in the diametrically opposite portion of the pulley rim, viz. the highest, the pulley becomes apparently balanced; its center of gravity being raised up into the longitudinal axis of the.

arbor and pulley. This method is lmown as still-balancing But it was often found that notwithstanding a still-balanced pulley might run satisfactorily at the comparatively low speeds formerly required, it would not, at what are now termed high speeds,

because it would violently shake its foundations and become a source of danger. Stated in another way, a still-balanced pulley was not necessarily a perfectly balanced pulley; and the problem presented was, to devise apparatus that would indicate whether or not such. a pulley, running at the speed required,

. was balanced, i. e. its axis would not vary in position.

The solution which we'herewith present, resides in arbor bearings for a pulley, so elastically mounted that they will,by. their movement, serve as an indication of the extent to-;which the pulley is out of balance, and enable the determination of the approximate diametrical plane of the pulley, in

which the objectionable moment is acting.

By successive chalkings of the" outside of the pulley rim, and trial adjustments of temporary weights, on portions of the rim diametrically opposite these marks,-a moment about the axis may be formed, equal and opposite to that due to the weight of the pulley, acting through the center of gravity at some unknown distance from said axis.

The position and weight of; the counterweight to be used, being determined by that temporary weight which brings about uniform rotation, such a counterweight may be substituted, and the pulley become so balanced that it will run evenly at a stated speed. In fine, by the use of our invention onemay guarantee that apulley will run,

as required, "at the speed desired. r

In the drawings illustrating the principle .of our. invention, and the best mode now known to us of embodying the same in operative structure, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof our invention, there being mounted therein apulley to be, tested; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of our invention. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the head ofone of the standards, without its elastically mounted bearing. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical section on line 4-4 in Fig. 1, showing the head, and bearing elastically mounted in the head;

the structure being in normal position. ,Fig.

condition. Fig. 10 is a similar view of a having a permanent fragment of a pulley mushroom counterweight.

The speed balancing mechanism for testing pulleys, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is adjustably mounted uponna cast. iron table A that may be secured to a suitable. foundation B, as a pier of concrete, or proper flooring. The table has parallel longitudinal lock slots 1, 1, arranged at proper distances apart,

to receive lock bolts 2, 2, that pass through feet 3, 3,'of a heavy cast iron frame work comprising two standards 4, 4. These standards are, by means of two bearing blocks 5, 5, adapted to receive and support a 'balanced arbor 6, upon which is removably mounted the pulley G to be tested. These bearing blocks are mounted in channels 7, 7 formed in longitudinal alinement, in the top portions ofxthe two standards 4, 4; the blocks and their respective channels being in cross section, preferably, inverted truncated iSOS-.

celes triangles, in order that the center of gravity of each bearing block may be nearer that of the balanced arbor to be mounted in the bearing. That these bearings may have limited movement in planes transverse to the longitudinal axis of the arbor, each is pivotally mounted upon a vertical adjusting screw 8 in the base of the channel 7; the point of the screw engaging a steel plate 9, Fig. 4, in

a seat centrally located in the base of the bearing block; and is retained in a normally upright position, in parallelism, but out of contact, with its respective channel, by two balancing studs 10, 10, arranged at substantially right angles to the longitudinal axis of the arbor bearingblock, and provided with spiral springs 11, 11, of suitable strength; one end portion of each stud passing through its slot 12 in the side portion of the head, and screwed into its adjacent side of the bearing block; while the other end portion, by ineans of a nut 13, engages the spiral spring 11 mounted on the stud but confined between the nut and the outside portion of the head. The frames, base and bearing having now been described, the n bor with the pulley to be tested, may, by

suitable apparatus, be swung and lowered into the bearing blocks, and a driving pulley D, Fig. 6, be fixed to the arbor, and power lines; the violence of. those movements being is determined by the above mentioned meths prevented by the alternate compression of the springs 11, upon the studs 10. In order to determine the heaviest side of the pulley, a piece of chalk E is pushed toward the pulley rim, until it just touches that portion of the rim swinging in the greatest circle. The power is disconnected, and upon the stoppage of the pulley, one of a number of tem-v porary counterweights F, Figs. 6 and 8, of

'various predetermined weights, is selected and secured to that portion of the rim substantially opposite to that chalk-marked, this counterweight being U shaped and pr0- vided with a screw in one of its legs to en- .gage the inside of the pulley rim. The pulley C, Fig. 8, with this temporary counterweight F is again set in motion, and the 0s cillations of the bearing box from side to side are noted; and the heaviest side, if any,

' 0d of chalking the rim. Another counterweight F, Fig. 9, heavier than the first is selected and adjusted to the rim substantially opposite the chalk mark, and the pulley once more started. If the-last counterweight .F is of thedesired weight, and is so placed;

as to form a moment equal and opposite to that due to the weight of the pulley acting through "the natural center of gravity of the pulley, the hearing will stand stationary in its normal position, and the chalk-mark will be continuous. If the last counterweight does not bring about the balance desired,

further selections and adjustments of counterweights must be made, until the pulley appears to be perfectly balancedz- When the pulley is thus balanced, a permanent counterweight G, Fig.- 10, so designed as to be the equivalent of the clamp in position on the rim of the pulley, is substituted. It is a mushroom shaped weight, and its shank g is inserted into a hole bored in the rim Where.

the temporary weight engages the rim, and is there secured by heading over the free end portion of the shank.- In fine, many still:

alanced pulleys are,\as a matter of fact, unbalanced; consequently they cannot .be guaranteed to be balanced, until tested, and corrected under actual'working speeds. By the use of our invention, they can be guaranteed.

Desiring to protect all the features of our invention in the broadest manner legally possible, what we claim is l. A pair of journal bearings, to sustain a balanced arbor and a pulley mounted thereon; a support for each bearing; a pivotal member in the support, to sustain the bearing; spring members engaging the support and the bearing on opposite sides, tending to hold, yet permit "the bearing to be moved, in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the arbor.

2.- A pair of journal hearings, to sustain a balanced arbor and a pulley mounted there on; a support for each bearing; said support having a channel to receive said bearing; a pivot 1n the bottom of the channel to sustain said bearing; two rods secured to two opposite sides of the bearing, and passing through the walls of the channel and the sides of the support; and springs on said rods tending to hold said bearing in normal position.

In testimony whereofwe aflix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JONATHAN T. LINCOLN. 7 7 JAMES CORNELL. Witnesses:

RICHARD P. BoRDEN, HENRY N. CURRAGHER. 

